Johnny Cash

I would take songs that I’d loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

Johnny Cash

I’m not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I’m thrilled to death with life.

Johnny Cash

I’m so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I’ve got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I’ll put on denim. But almost everything I’ve got the black on.

Johnny Cash

I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Johnny Cash

I’ve always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference – you know? – that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

Johnny Cash

If I’m anything, I’m not a singer but I’m a song stylist.

Johnny Cash

If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

Johnny Cash

It’s all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

Johnny Cash

It’s like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it’s off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

Johnny Cash

Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.

Johnny Cash